Effects of lifelong ethanol consumption on rat locus coeruleus

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 463-470

  Lu, Wei ^a   Jaatinen, Pia ^a,b   Rintala, Jyrki ^a   Sarviharju, Maija ^c   Kiianmaa, Kalervo ^c   Hervonen, Antti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030806749     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a008281     Document Type: Article

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